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  1. Syo Emerald wrote:

    If you single out such a specific group, you do not get a sample that will be representive for all residents in SL. This is like asking just chinese women aged 40-45, who live in Queens about their opinions and assume their answers will be representive for the USA as a whole.

     

    Don't have a clue what you are talking about is pretty much the same response across the whole of the USA, I thought.


  2. Qie Niangao wrote:


    moonlight1135 wrote:

    I did move in (
    per se
    ).

    Emphasis mine, because I'm trying to imagine what meaning a parenthetical "per se" was intended to add to that sentence. The OP's first language may not be English, but then "per se" isn't native English either, and anyway
    this isn't to find fault with anybody's expression
    . I'm just trying to discover what shade of meaning was missing from "I did move in" that "(per se)" was supposed to remedy.

    Perhaps "pro tem"?

    When you are semi-literate in one language it tends to leak out into others, especially dead ones.


  3. Kelli May wrote:

    Portlanders, who are also forum readers, who also fit your requirements, who also want to be interviewed.

    Such a representative sample of SL.

    Why? Is there something unusual about Portlanders?


  4. Sassy Romano wrote:


    Drake1 Nightfire wrote:


    JustChrisMcDonald wrote:

    The PS4 is the next logical step for
    Linden Lab
      being a x86 architecture  system it is no different
    then
    building software for the pc. If linden labs are willing two invest time and money in low
    quality 
    mobile apps then they should be willing to invest in a decent PS4
    viewer
    . I know a ps4 Xbox one
    viewer
    would not be for every one but nether are the cell phone apps. A good software company should make sure
    there
    products  are available  on the most platforms that is possible .
    Does
    anyone
    have a opinion  on this.

    Yes. My opinion, learn to use spellcheck.

    You also might want to use SL for a bit before thinking a game system could handle it. How exactly would the system know I had rezzed a new cat on my SIM before you visit? Or what changes were made to a shop? SL isn't a static game. Hell, it isn't a game at all. Everything you see is user created. Name a single "game" that has that.

    Unfortunately, spell check does not correct the improper use of "then" instead of "than" (something that winds me up no end!) or "there" instead of "their".

    aargh, i've become an Internet grammar/spell troll
    :P

    After The Deadline has grammar and (non-Microsoft) style error-correcting suggestions as well as spell-checking and it works in the popular non-IE browsers in LL's post editor.

  5. One of the pleasures of SL has always been its unpredictable ephemeral nature.

    If you want stability (in any sense of the word) or guarantees of environment, performance or emotional responses then SL is NOT the place to look for it.

    And look for it you have to.

    It seems as if the sense of nostalgia in this thread is endorsed by those who are happy to be led by the nose by commercially venal "advisers", advertisements that are a happy-hunting ground for semi-literate amateur copywriters, or guerilla marketing campaigns populated by bots.

    Fine.

    I'll take serendipity and a tiny friends list of people whose opinions I can trust - even if I don't trust the people themselves.

  6. This article gives the current state of the law. The Judge's rulings regarding IP addresses are deeply flawed, as indicated by the Law Professor's comments, since there was no need under the existing CFAA legislation to consider whether changing IP adresses is relevant; it was simply enough to confirm that the defendant had persisted in accessing websites for which they had been served a "cease and desist" notice.

    The comments also indicate that the CFAA is obviously in need of rewriting, a bill (Aaron's Law - after the activist who took his own life) being in process (as it has been for about two years!) to make appropriate changes and clarify the underlying intent of the CFAA, the EFF commenting that: "Without this change, the government could've prosecuted everyday Americans for violating low-level terms of service violations... In short, everyone would be a criminal, leaving it up to the government to decide when and where to bring down the hammer."

    The situation described by the OP is of course very different from that where the owner of a website wishes to restrict access, and I am sure that an IP (that's Intellectual Property, not Internet Protocol!) lawyer would be wringing his hands with joy at the prospect of arguing whether LL could actually pass on their rights to sim owners, renters, or anonymous and unvalidated alts.

    The big problem is that an IP address does not define an individual - and you can't prosecute without being able to prove identity unequivocally, although as with any service, as long as you are not actively discriminating against some minority that the politicians want to humor, an organisation such as LL can refuse to serve anyone.

    Whether the courts might take a different view of banning the users of the El-Ber Islamic School in comparison with preventing access by the inhomogenous ranks of students of Columbia University's Law School is an interesting thought.

    The globality aspect is also of interest; where denial of service relies on USA legislation which is not mirrored in other countries then refusal to respect the ToS is almost impossible to enforce.

    It's a minefield.

    I look forward to making my fortune from it.

    IANALY

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